The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-08

I WHEELING
an officer Of the First Branch Of the Oily
Council. R55Sf 'is5. % tis iEH'
H. q: Fledderman, Sheriff, ia an olec.
ton brlber. agE ''Ess' ~
William F. Harig, attempted murderer
aud jailbird, 10 q laborer In the Custom.
House. s, 59sFsI I.ia5 e5'E'r' 1la5l (
Martin CLARK, Hezekiah Best and John
W. cMahon arc convlo!s awaiting sen.
tence for bosraying their trusts as judges
Of election. 4NG0's2IU f5S1'
James Mahon, brother OF "gonny" Ma.
hon, waa Register Of Voters. He was tried
for malieasance. The case waB clearly ca.
tabliahed, hut by some peculiar influence
II hung. Mahon was Immediately after
appointed janitor In the cualom house,
and Joe +. heine, who was one Of tho jury
In Mehon's case, was naads Deputy shsria
ahortly after. ~ b fp,.5
Budd ki!tingham, executive OF his
ward, Judge Of Election md delegate to
the late Democratic Convention, Is pro.
teeaonal ballot-hox stuGer and the keeper
Of q low dive where voters ore colonlz ID
! by the HCore. gN" @l''H .- s'
Isaiah Waters, John B.andaw, Charlc,
Ovens and Henry Hein,zerling, convicted
ol perjury and bal!ot.box stuiliug, having
forged forty uames in one precinct In one
ward, have been sentenced to two years
In the penitsutiary. ( ..s.,5a. ',-lll
John 6onnor, perjurer and ballotbox
atullor,, now In city jail. eliIt
Charles Reyes, ao!f.confesaed ballot.
burner. yi. 5}l m
In addition 10 this list are suparin.
tendent Of aewers who has been convicted
and sentenced to fifteen years In the peni.
tentiaIy;a police sergeant who admitted
hG hud been arrestGd four timca for q sht.
ing and smashing the ba!!ot-bcx; q street
foreman, twice m ax.convict; a deputy
aherilf, indicted for larceny; another dep.
uty sheriff who got up eCheme to rob the
Adams Express Company at Cockeyville,
and who served five years III the peniteu.
tiary.
In the seventeenth ward nineteen out OF
the twent y-thrce olIice.hoders have crimi.
nal recorug. In the Thirteenth ward the
ring added l0S name, Of fictitious voters.
G : INDICTMENTS FOUND. 9a'
Two officers Of registration were indicted
by tho Grand Jury to-day. Their nsnes
are William Il. Collina, OF the Tenth ward,
and Robert J. Fdgin, OF tho Eighteenth
ward. Both mon are charged with refus.
ing to allow the agents Of the Reform
League 10 inspect their registration books,
which ia q viots.ion OF the Law. The caas
will bs heard In few days.
So iGr the Resorm League hiss he'd five
hundred names stricken from tho books
of the Thirteenth ward. The ere about
i've thousand more petitions to be heard
from the Second, Ninth, Thirtesnth and
ssyenteeth wards. Beginning with next
week all tho Judges OF tho Supreme Bench
will bear petitions each day until the 2G.h,
the day Of the municipal electioa..
When the October sitting Of the registers
of voters began here last Monday the Re.
form League hsd agents stationed in all
| OF the Offices to sse that the law waz no.
yiolGted, Mr.. John Johnson, jr., Dsmo.
crat, was sent to the Seventeenth ward, ,
one OF the toughest in tho city, and the
very first day he got into trouble. He
charged that Register Wehss diacrimin.
ased against the coloted applicants for
registration, often compelling them to
wait hours to be registered when they
could have gotten through in
ten or fifteen minutes. Mr.. johnson OBJ.
jected to this mode Of doing busiuees and
SO informed the Re2istes. The latter i'm
mediately called an officer, who carried
johnson of to prison. O1co behind the
bars johnson was threatened to public
bath, in accordapcs with the rules OF the
institution, hut was let OF by the Warden.
FTo hours later ho wsg released on bail.
To-day he entered suit for $40 900 damages
against Wehsee for falas arrest.
WHAT TIE REroRMERs HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH.
One OF the mos. prominen. lawyers
identified with tho reform movement, in
|speaking Of the corruption, which a. pres
ent is an epidemic here, expressed him.
sell In this way:
III We are successful in our efforts We
will prevent at lesst three thousand ficti-
tious ps1aons from voting this fall. That
will make difference Of 5000 votes in
.hs county. Then again, we will have at
lseat six Thousand independent Democrats
who are dispo.sd tc rebuke the President
for stil!iating with this Ring. We eau
count upon 5000 Labor votes to help us
along. The Labor party here is not as
well organized as We would wish. Lass
yess they carried q ward, but were
counted ont vitG the rest OF US.
They orc as core as We are. They will
naturally fall in with US. II the regis.
trstion is voted as it shows to-day
We vii! defeat the ring by majority Of
5000. We are Gnable thus far to capture
| the people who put up this rssoslity. In
Eew York, thsnks to tho IForld, you COB
bled Sharp, because the newspapers man.
ufactured public sentiment. Here the
lawyers had to make the sentiment It
vas hard work. The newspapers lent
littlo, il any, support. In tsps, they threw
obstacles in our way. In consequence we
have only succeeded in capturing the
email fry, while realizing that the larger
fish remain behind. What we want is
Newspaper assistance. Take the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee Of this
eity-every member Of II is an olhcs.
holder, and oue-hs!f Of the members are
conyiate. They hold their positions only
by their influence and power over the
lowest and most deprayed clasa OF people
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